Haiku Poetry

A haiku poem has a Japanese poetic form. The theme of these types of poems are usually inspired by nature. The form of the poem goes as followed: line 1 = 5 syllables, line 2 = 7 syllables, line 3 = 5 syllables.

The three of us collected branches, leaves, flowers, etc. from outside, and created pictures out of these things from nature. Then, we wrote our own haiku poems to go with the artwork. Here is our final projects:              

A Haiku by Leah

A garden of youth 

Beauty, song and lovely dreams

Dancing in the sun

A Haiku by Jagna

A God, a God, a

Really good God of nature

Lija likes the God

A Haiku by Jagoda

Yes, says the green branch

No, says the God of nature

I said yes, dumb God!

Jagoda's videos

Jagoda decided to make a video about us doing the popular taste test challenge!

Pictographs

The definition of a pictograph is a symbol or image that represents an idea. Ancient people like cavemen, the Egyptians and natives used pictographs to tell a story and communicate. Here we have created our own!

    

(websites we visited about the history of pictographs and images)

http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/native/sign/pictographs.htm

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/plateaus/kids/parade.html

Codes

Codes

We were looking through the book "Cracking Codes" by Diana Kimpton when we decided to create our own codes to communicate with each other. It's fun because it is a secret that no one else will be able to understand except for the people who know the code. First we wrote messages to each other on paper, then we went on the computer and created our own codes using "error" messages.
Can you figure them out?

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Answers: 1. Code: every word is backwards 2. read every second letter 3. read first word on the first line, then first word on second like, continue. 4. letters are in correct order but spaced in odd places. 5. read the last word of every sentence. 6. first letter of every word.